Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . ependent republics of Cen-tral America, extends from 13° 50to 18° 15north latitude, and from 88° 14 to 93° 12west longitude. Its boundaries are, on thenorth, the Mexican State of Chiapas; on theeast, British Honduras and the Caribbean Sea ;on the south, the republics of Honduras andSan Salvador; and on the southwest, the la-cific Ocean. Xo further progress has been made duringthe past year in the negotiations relating tothe district of Peten, claimed by Mexico.* The President of the Republic is Lieutenant-General Ra
Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . ependent republics of Cen-tral America, extends from 13° 50to 18° 15north latitude, and from 88° 14 to 93° 12west longitude. Its boundaries are, on thenorth, the Mexican State of Chiapas; on theeast, British Honduras and the Caribbean Sea ;on the south, the republics of Honduras andSan Salvador; and on the southwest, the la-cific Ocean. Xo further progress has been made duringthe past year in the negotiations relating tothe district of Peten, claimed by Mexico.* The President of the Republic is Lieutenant-General Rafino Barrios, elected May 7. 1878 :and the cabinet is made up of the following * Minute details concerning the territorial division, area,ami population of Guatemala may be found In the Anm for 1675. 374 GUATEMALA. members : Interior and Finance, Sefior F. Al-burez; War and Public Works, Sefior J. ; and Foreign Affairs and Public In-struction, Sefior Macal. The standing army is composed of 3,200men, besides which there is a militia force of13, fruitful in happy results. One of the first im-portant acts of Minister Macal, after his ap-pointment to the portfolio of Foreign Affairsand Public Instruction, was to visit the schoolsand other educational establishments in theseveral eastern departments, publishing at hisreturn a report on the condition of the schoolsof the east, from which we extract the fol-lowing particulars: DEPARTMENTS. Sacapa Chiquimula. Jalapa Jutiapa Santa Bosa. Total. SCHOLARS. Males. Females. 746 110 1,294 180 m 167 535 44 706 218 4,078 734 The Government, not satisfied with merelyhaving established public schools throughoutthe country, still continues to bestow uponthe cause of education a degree of care andzealous attention which cannot fail to prove The number of scholars attending all schools,public and private, in the capital, was 3,527; thetotal monthly expenditure for the public schoolsof the city being $15, per mo
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